Racism Sucks but Not Nearly As Bad As Being Broke
For the past week I’ve been think about what will I write about today and it wasn’t until this morning that I came up with a topic. Last night sparked a series of discussions about racism due to the appearance of the Harbinger of Racism himself the Rev. Al Sharpton. I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Rev. Sharpton, sometimes he has some excellent points but even when he does he tends to push it too far. Then other times I feel like he’s the black Rush Limbaugh. I mean I know racism exist and it seems all the racist left in the US got law degrees and became judges and DAs. As bad as that is it’s not the major divide in this country, no one in their right mind is discriminating against Oprah! For years racism, has been the front for the true battle of the have’s versus the have not’s. There is just as much poverty, drugs and violence in the trailer parks as there is in the ghetto. Their schools are just as much a disgrace; they drop out just as much. If we as people focused why the poor stay poor in this country and work together instead of dividing us into subsets maybe we could get some serious progress done. But as long as people equate poor and disadvantage with minorities the rich will stay rich and the poor will become poorer and dumber. It’s no coincidence that the poorest states of the union are also the worse educated and most racially divided and the most Republican too.
We need to start focusing on education in this country again, it seems like since the Cold War ended we had no need to be the smartest and brightest anymore. I never truly noticed how dumb we’ve become as a country until I traveled outside of it. They don’t hate us for our freedom; they hate us because we’re stupid, arrogant and rude. I felt more at home in Germany than I ever had back here. Now let’s think about what I just said. Germany, a country whom 70 years ago, was killing anybody whom wasn’t white enough; now you have Turks, Africans, Asians, etc living peacefully together. How it is that Germany can get their act together so much faster than us?? I know we’re better than this aren’t we??
